The 1st ETSI hackathon to develop PETSIRD, a standard for PET raw data to facilitate open data, source code and model sharing in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, has been successfully completed at UBC in Vancouver! We are very excited to produce in just two days Monte Carlo and analytical simulation PETSIRD list mode data and independently validate the data format and its usability via several use cases including analysis, processing, tomographic reconstruction and data conversion! Congratulations to all participants from academia and industry for their enthusiasm, creativity, collaborative spirit and productivity throughout the event. We are very lucky to have you all on board!
Special thanks to Kris Thielemans and Nicolas Karakatsanis for organizing this event, Michael Hansen and Johns Stairs for providing the YARDL programming interface and demonstrating its usage, as well as Glenn Wells, Adam Kesner and Arman Rahmim for supporting this hackathon as part of the ETSI initiative.
We would also like to thank the PIDSC council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), the NMISC council of the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society the CCP SyneRBI and our sponsors United Imaging Healthcare, Alafia AI, Positrigo and Canon Medical Research for their continuous support!
Let us all continue to work together to drive forward raw data standardization in PET and other emission imaging modalities in medicine across the academia and industry!
Emission Tomography Standardization Initiative (ETSI) 
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